HMS Hermes (R12) Conventionally-Powered Aircraft Carrier (1959)
The HMS Hermes R12 has her keel laid down in 1944 but was not completed until the 1950s, commissioned in 1959.
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Specifications for the
HMS Hermes (R12)
Conventionally-Powered Aircraft Carrier
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Initial Year of Service: 1959
Operators: United Kingdom; India (INS Viraat R22)
Crew: 2,100
Length: 775ft (236.22m)
Beam: 148ft (45.11m)
Draught: 27.8ft (8.47m)
Displacement: 25,350tons
Machinery: 2 x Parson steam turbines developing 76,000 shaft-horsepower.
Surface Speed: 28kts (32mph)
Range: 8,050miles (12,955km)
Armament:
A COMPLETED:
10 x 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns
POST-1970 REFIT:
2 x Sea Cat short-range surface-to-air missile launchers.
Air Arm: 28 x aircraft made up of fixed-wing and rotary-wing types; to include the BAe Sea Harrier VTOL fighters (28) or de Havilland Sea Vixen (12), Blackburn Buccaneer (7) and Fairey Gannet aircraft (5) and Westland Wessex helicopters (6).
Ship Class: Centaur-class
Number-in-Class: 4
Ships-in-Class: HMS Centaur (R06); HMS Albion (R07); HMS Bulwark (R08); HMS Hermes (R12); HMS Monmouth (cancelled); HMS Polyphemus (cancelled); HMS Arrogant (cancelled); HMS Elephant (renamed as HMS Hermes R12)
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